The settlements on the Holston grew with great rapidity as soon as the Franklin disturbances were at an end.

As the people increased in military power, they increased also in material comfort, and political stability.

The crude social life deepened and broadened.

Comfortable homes began to appear among the huts and hovels of the little towns.

The outlying settlers still lived in wooden forts or stations; but where the population was thicker, the terror of the Indians diminished, and the people lived in the ordinary style of frontier farmers.
The South-western Territory Organized.
Early in 1790, North Carolina finally ceded, and the National Government finally accepted, what is now Tennessee; and in May, Congress passed a law for the government of this Territory Southwest of the River Ohio, as they chose to call it.